Confusion No More: For the Spiritual Seeker

What is spiritual seeking all about? The answer is usually enlightenment. But what exactly is that? What precisely does enlightenment mean?

Spiritual seekers have come to believe that the enlightened or self-realized sage is an almost perfect being, totally disciplined, entirely in control of his mind and body, removed from the daily realities of existence, whom everyone looks to for guidance and who will protect his disciples from all life's difficulties. Nothing, explains Ramesh S. Balsekar, could be further from the truth - but for many seekers this misconception is the source of complete confusion and serious suffering.

Here, in his modern, eloquent, and often amusing style, Balsekar shows us how confusion can be banished by simple acceptance - accepting that whatever exists in the moment is precisely as it is supposed to be, according to the Cosmic Law that is forever beyond the conception of the human intellect. Self-realization is not about being separate from the world and other people, but being at one with everything. It means understanding that one's place in the fabric of all that exists in the moment has never been in one's control. And with this understanding comes true peace.